Maximiliano asked:

I read many years a go a book about Maeister Eckhart, where he said: "Are you talking about God?
Anything you could said about him is a lie". Do you know, the name of the book?

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Breakthrough by Matthew Fox I thought, but having said that I can't find on which page. This saying
reads like a gloss on 1 John 1:10; 2:21-22; 4:6, 20. It is also a statement of apophatic(negative)
theology in which the presupposition is that God is not defined by his being or non-being, but by what
he is not (His beyond-being). This can be read about in the Mystical Theology of Pseudo-Dionysius
(in print in English in the Classics of Western Spirituality series, NY: Paulist Press.) I wonder about
the translations of Eckhardt.. There are a lot, some of them are very loose, even I would say,
made-up. Sermon XXXII Homo quidam fecit coenam magnum (Lk.14:16) in the Pfeiffer collection,
with Spamer's insert from his Texte, has: We can say nothing of God because nothing is like him."
Actually Eckhardt reiterates this idea throughout his sermons, tractates and sayings. The idea that
anything said about God is a lie imputes moral fault. Unlike Eckhardt to be this loose-tongued with
language — more like an American translator who wants to underline what they believe to be
Eckhardt's anti-authoritarian disestablishment theology. There is also the logical difficulty which
Eckhardt would have seen had liar been his actual word: Eckhardt's statement is either true or false.
If it is false it would suggest that Eckhardt is a liar; if it is true it would mean Eckhardt is certainly a
liar.

Matthew Del Nevo

www.sicetnon.com